Actual picture of French child during war. This could easily have been the model for Chérie de la Croix de Valois, though I found this picture long after I’d created the character. (from rare collection of color WWI photos)

French Poilus charge at the doubletime. This evokes the charge at Artois where Kiffin Rockwell was wounded. Note the horizon blue coats. This had to be early in the war before the French soldier began wearing helmets.